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Global sediment fluxes to the Earth’s coastal ocean

✍ Scribed by James P.M. Syvitski


Book ID
116233143
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
98 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0883-2927

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